Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: cvs snapshots?

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Jack Jansen wrote:

> I think the problem here is that gnutar and OSX-tar are not 100%
> compatible. To make matters worse, once you use fink it will install
> a GNU tar in 
> /sw/bin
> with the name "tar", and it obscures OSX tar. The result of this is
> that you create tarfiles that cannot be read by people who have only
> a basic OSX installation. I got bitten by this a while ago.

Note that the snapshot tar files are created on a Linux shell box @ sf,
but I have no idea what tar version that is.

Just